An adaptation of best-selling 2020 essay Caste:The Origin of Our Discontentby Isabel Wilkerson, this much-anticipated film by Ava DuVernay shows how racial and class divisions, as well as other factors, origin in a concealed caste system that for generation shaped the fates of individuals and nations. By analyzing America’s own caste system as well as the ones of India and of Nazi Germany, the film shows the eight pillars that anchor the caste systems in all civilizations: God’s will, bloodlines, stigmas, and more.
Ava DuVernay is one of the most influential black female directors in Hollywood. She debuted at age 32 with a self-produced film, I Will Follow (2011). The following year, she would be the first woman to receive the Best Direction Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere. In 2015, she was the first African-American director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Direction with Selma. Her upcoming Origin is a story about institutional racism in the USA, from the mass incarceration of black people to the ‘Central Park Five’ case. In Venice, DuVernay will also participate in the amfAR charity gala. In the occasion, she will be recognized with the Award of Inspiration.
